Artificial Intelligence
Pursuing computing advances to create intelligent machines that complement human reasoning to augment and enrich our experience and competencies.
Project
Skinput: Appropriating the Body as an Input Surface
We present Skinput, a technology that appropriates the human body for acoustic transmission, allowing the skin to be used as an input surface.
Video
A Practical Guide to Neural Machine Translation
In the last two years, attentional-sequence-to-sequence neural models have become the state-of-the-art in machine translation, far surpassing the accuracy phrasal translation systems of in many scenarios. However, these Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems are not…
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Computational Tools for Music
Work in this area seeks to use computational tools to enable musical creativity, in particular to give novices a variety of new approaches to experience musical creativity.
Publication
Mining Semantic Loop Idioms from Big Code
Project
Enterprise Deep Intelligence (EDI)
EDI Agent The EDI agent is a research prototype deployed internally, which can easily schedule meetings for all Microsoft employees. The EDI agent is able to understand natural language requests, find appropriate time slots, book available…
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MySong: Automatic Accompaniment for Vocal Melodies
Want to Give MySong a Try? MySong is now Songsmith; you can download a free trial (or the full version, if you’re a teacher who wants to use it in your classroom) at: http://research.microsoft.com/songsmith Happy…
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Data-Driven Exploration of Musical Chord Sequences
We present data-driven methods for supporting musical creativity by capturing the statistics of a musical database. Specifically, we introduce a system that supports users in exploring the high-dimensional space of musical chord sequences by parameterizing…